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Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was a noted American art collector of seminal modernist paintings and an experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays, which eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th century literature. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, raised in Oakland, California, and moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life. For some forty years, the Stein home on the Left Bank of Paris would become a renowned Saturday evening gathering place for expatriate American artists and writers, and others noteworthy in the world of vanguard arts and letters. Entrée and membership in the Stein salon was a sought-after validation, signifying that Stein had recognized a talent worthy of inclusion into a rarefied group of gifted artists. Stein became combination mentor, critic, and guru to those who gathered around her. A self-defined "genius," she was described as an imposing figure with a commanding manner whose inordinate self-confidence could intimidate. Among her coterie she was referred to as “Le Stein” and with less laudatory deference as “The Presence.” www.nybooks.com Kimmelman, Michael, “Missionaries,” The New York Review of Books , April 26, 2012www.poetryfoundation.com, Biography, "Gertrude Stein 1974-1946," retrieved October 15, 2012

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Uniform title: Selections. 1998
by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c1998
 
 
by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1969, c1947]
 
 
 
by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
New York, Vintage Books [1973, c1937]
 
 
by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1971 [c1941]
 
 
Uniform title: Selections. 1998
by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c1998
 
 
Uniform title: Yale edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein. Selections
by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1980
 
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